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Learn more about sharks in Shark Night 3D

By InCinemas / 19 Sep 2011 (Monday)

[Watch Meet-The-Sharks Featurette below!]
[Find out more about the Sharks in SHARK NIGHT 3D]

SHARK NIGHT 3D is a horror thriller movie opening in theatres on 6 October 2011.
The movie shows a group of college students trapped on an island surrounded by voracious underwater predators - Sharks.

And according to its director, David. R. Ellis, when asked to describe how he builds the exquisite tension that marks his films, Ellis explains, “The best way to really scare the audience is to misdirect their attention so when they think something is about to happen, it doesn’t. And then when they’re not really expecting it, you have something jump in their face. We have a lot of those great moments in Shark Night 3-D.”

Ellis also notes that the audience will get to see how the various sharks swim and attack their targets in the SHARK NIGHT 3D. Have a look at the featurette below! =)

[Sharks Night 3D: Meet The Sharks]

How do you like to have met the sharks? We've also included below some information of the sharks in general and more about 3 typical sharks known as Great White Shark, Bull Shark and Tiger Shark.

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DO YOU KNOW?
GENERAL

• Sharks are at the top of the food chain, which means they’re not instinctively afraid of anything.

• The United States tops the list for shark attacks worldwide.

• About two-thirds of shark attacks on humans have taken place in water less than six feet deep.

• Like most predators, sharks use stealth and surprise to strike their victims. Most shark attack survivors say they never saw the shark that bit them.

SHARK SENSES

• Sharks have been called “swimming noses” because their sense of smell is so keen. Some
sharks can detect a single drop of blood in 100 million drops of water.

• Sharks’ hearing is also acute—some can hear prey in the water from 3,000 feet (more than half a mile) away.

• Because their eyes are set wide apart and they constantly move their heads from side to side, Sharks take in a nearly 360-degree view of their surroundings.

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SHARK TEETH

• Most sharks have between five and 15 rows of teeth in each jaw, or as many as 3,000 at one time. Some sharks have up to 30,000 teeth in a lifetime!

• Sharks that eat seals and other mammals have sharp, serrated cutting teeth for tearing off chunks of flesh. Most sharks do not chew their food, but rather gulp it down in large pieces.

• When a shark’s front tooth breaks or falls out, it only takes a day or so for a newer tooth to move forward to the front row.

• Sharks can generate more than 40,000 pounds of pressure per square inch, measured at the tip of a tooth—large specimens may be capable of even more crushing power.

• A shark will often shake whatever it bites into from side to side, creating a sawing action with its serrated teeth.

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ABOUT THE SHARKS
GREAT WHITE SHARK

• The largest and strongest predatory fish known to roam the sea, the great white shark (also called “White Death”), can grow up to 30 feet long.

• A great white’s powerful jaws generate a bite force of up to two tons, more than three times that of an African lion. Its jaw is six times stronger than a wolf’s and is believed to have about two-thirds the biting strength of a Tyrannosaurus Rex.

• The great white is responsible for roughly one third to one half of all deadly attacks on humans.

• Great white sharks have been seen leaving the water completely in spectacular leaps to snatch sea lions in their jaws.

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BULL SHARK

• In part, the bull shark earns its name for persistence in attacks—it hits a target, circles, and repeats.

• Bull sharks are indiscriminate hunters that will sink their teeth into pretty much any animal they can get their massive jaws around.

• Overall, the bull shark may be the most dangerous of its kind because of its aggression and preferred habitat—shallow coastal waters. By regulating salt and other substances in its blood, a bull shark can even hunt in a freshwater environment. They’ve been spotted in bays, lagoons and even rivers, sometimes thousands of miles from the ocean. They have also been found in the Mississippi River.

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TIGER SHARK

• Tiger sharks are named for the dark, vertical stripes found mainly on juveniles. As these sharks mature, the lines begin to fade and almost disappear.

• Sometimes called the “garbage can of the sea,” the tiger shark will eat anything, including
animal carcasses, tin cans and car tires. One was even found with a chicken coop in its
stomach, bones and feathers included.

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SHARK NIGHT 3D opens InCinemas 6 October 2011.

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